balance and fade

Got new used car with new used radio

Regarding balance and fade contols, which pop out for adjustment and then can be pushed in, so that only a little sticks out:

"Adjust the balance (or fade, for the other button) and push the button back in. The balance (or fade) will be displayed and continuously updated while the button is pressed".

What does this mean?

How can it update the fade or balance setting? Is the knob not a direct adjustment but something that controls an electronic circuit? I can see that could be, but what standards would it use for modifying the balance and fade? Would it use sensors to tell which seats are occupied? I've thought about that for years** but if any car did this, I'd have thought I would have heard about it.

Right now, both adjustments are in the middle, and maybe I'd see something on the display if I turned one of them, but I'm asking here first.

**GM cars did and maybe do use the Right Rear speakers to provide the same channel as the Left Front (and Left Rear and Right Front had the Right channel) and they did this to make up for the fact that almost everyone sits in a corner of the car. I had GM cars for 21 years although maybe the first ones (1965) didn't have a stereo radio? I'm sure the '67 and '73e did and the sound was fine.
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micky
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Regardless of type, it's always controlled an electronic circuit. The old style were analog, with the control knob being a potentiometer that changed the resistance in the analog amp circuit. The new style which have been around now for decades, the knob is an input to the digital controller, with cpu smarts, that reads it and then does the adjustment. Not sure exactly how it works, but would suspect it's a switch that when rotated sends pulses.

I can see

IDK how advanced they are in cars, it clearly would depend on what car you're talking about. For home system, yes there are sophisticated adjustment systems that use feedback to try to correct for the room and environment. You might see that on a MB, IDK. But for a basic car, it works like the old style, you adjust it to your liking. That's always been enough for me.

Good thing, God forbid, the car might explode if you fiddled with that fader to see how it works.

Reply to
trader_4

Can you rotate the button with finger tip while pushing on it or when pushed in?

Reply to
Paul in Houston TX

micky wrote: "

**GM cars did and maybe do use the Right Rear speakers to provide the same channel as the Left Front (and Left Rear and Right Front had the Right channel) and they did this to make up for the fact that almost everyone sits in a corner of the car. I had GM cars for 21 years although maybe the first ones (1965) didn't have a stereo radio? I'm sure the '67 and '73e did and the sound was fine. "

I remember that! Been 25 years since I drove a '81 Buick Century, and yes, the left and right were flipped in the rear. I swtiched the rear speakers, checked fade and balance, and noticed I had much better stereo imaging no matter where I sat in that car. I thought someone had added rear speakers and simply crossed them up.

Silly GM!

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thekmanrocks

I thought I was clear enough. I'm differentiating a pot that adjusts the input to a midstage or output transistor and does no more than adjust volume or a double pot that increase volume in one pair of speakers while decreasing it in another versus one that controls a more complicated circuit

Apparently not, or the words in the owners manual would not be there.

If that's all it had, that would be enough, but it claims to have more. Wouldn''t you want to understand your car's features?

I suspected that the display would not actually show anthing more than it had shown so far and I went for a drive between my first post and this one, and in fact it didn't show anything, not for FM, cassette, or CD.

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micky

I went for a diver after I posted, and No, I couldnt' get a grip.

I googled "will be displayed and continuously updated while the button is pressed" and didn't get any good hits. Maybe when the shop manual arrives it will discuss this, but I very much doubt it. They never say how the radio works, only how to remove it.

I guess the next stop is a Chrysler forum. I see all 3 Sebring Yahoo lists have been dormant for almost 2 years, and I hate webforums, but I will try a yahoo list and a forum. .

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Reply to
micky

It's a simple digital control. When you push in and release the knob pops out and you are adjusting whichever control you are moving. It will display that adjustment as you are making it, then switch back to the default display a couple seconds after you stop moving the control. For instance if you are adjusting the balance the control, it just shifts the input signals to the final amp to "move" the sound in the direction you are turning the knob. Pushing it in does nothing except locks the knob in place so you don't hit it by accident.

Same thing with the fader and bass/treble controls. Now if you have the uplevel stereo it does have auto volume control that raises the volume as speed increases but that's about it.

I hope you ordered the correct book, The Sebring is an interesting car. First generation convertibles were built on a modified Mitsubishi Galant platform but used components for the Talon while the coupes were basically re-skinned Mitsubishi Eclipses. The second generations were still Eclipses for the coupes but a Chrysler platform was now used under the convertible and sedan. The last models of sedan and convertible used a newer Chrysler platform.

It can get REAL interesting when you try to get parts if you forget to say coupe, sedan or convertible. Plus the model year changes to the drive train make it handy to know the build date...

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Steve W.

You may distinguish it that way, that's up to you, it makes no sense to me. The basic distinction is between the old style analog pot control and mod ern digital control. Why you'd care about the complexity of the analog cir cuit, IDK, not would anyone know without analysis of how your radio was des igned.

What words? They say the button pops out, you turn it to adjust. That is typical, nothing new there. Where they say the balance will be continuousl y adjusted and displayed while you "push" the button, I would assume they m eant "turn", because that's how you adjust it. The pushing pops the contro l button in or out, which is very common.

I don't see that.

Say what? It's not going to show anything about balance while you're just using the radio. Did you pop out the balance button and look at the displa y while you turned it? Hear any difference? You seem to write a lot, but not convey the most relevant info.

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trader_4

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